Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy… to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous… let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

Cannibalism is a Western, white imposition. A retrospective racism. Tribal memory, collective dreams and wishful thinking should, if not silence, then at least reduce to a tearful academic whisper any attempt to discredit the lives of Indians. Haven’t they suffered enough?

I’m not militant about atheism, but I feel like religion has been imposed on me.

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.